FOOTNOTES

FOOTNOTES1When in parallel the batteries are said to be ‘grouped down’; when in series they are ‘grouped up.’2Leading Torpedo Man.3Seaman Torpedo Man.4Engine Room Artificer.5Seamen.6T.I. Torpedo Instructor.7Periscope.8Torpedo or Mine.9Several submarines secured alongside each other to the depot ship.10Periscope.11Crossed anchor. The badge indicating the rating of Petty Officer.12‘Making’ a switch is switching on. ‘Breaking’ a switch is switching off.13Mines.14Naval Store Officer.15The overhang of the stern.16Senior Naval Officer.17Ampères.

1When in parallel the batteries are said to be ‘grouped down’; when in series they are ‘grouped up.’

2Leading Torpedo Man.

3Seaman Torpedo Man.

4Engine Room Artificer.

5Seamen.

6T.I. Torpedo Instructor.

7Periscope.

8Torpedo or Mine.

9Several submarines secured alongside each other to the depot ship.

10Periscope.

11Crossed anchor. The badge indicating the rating of Petty Officer.

12‘Making’ a switch is switching on. ‘Breaking’ a switch is switching off.

13Mines.

14Naval Store Officer.

15The overhang of the stern.

16Senior Naval Officer.

17Ampères.

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(Author of ‘Where England Sets Her Feet’)

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By MARJORIE BOWEN

(Author of ‘The Burning Glass’)

The story is ofYoung Mr. Misfortunate(as Charles Edward Stewart was styled by the Whigs of his time) after the disaster of the ’45 Scottish Expedition to his meeting with Clementina Walkinshaw in 1753.

It opens in Scotland, but is mainly placed in Paris and its environs, in palace and slum, with one change to Venice.

The theme is the little known adventures that led to the downfall of a cause and a man—the most lovable and unfortunate of all the lovable and unfortunate Stewarts.

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An American from Maddox Munitions, Incorporated, the owners of a new war invention—the telautomaton, forms the centre round which this exciting mystery tale is built. In trying to answer the ever-present question ‘Who killed Marshall Maddox?’ the reader is tossed about a sea of conjecture by two strong main currents which continually cross and recross each other and keep him mystified till the end of the book. Scientific inventiveness—at times diabolical in its ruthless ingeniousness, plays no less strong a part than does Paquita, the adventuress. Was the death of Maddox retributive for his double life or was it due to the covetousness of some schemer. It required a detective of Craig Kennedy’s acumen to discover.

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By LIEUT. MARK BENNETT, R.N.R.

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This is the story of an American whose nature is refined in the fire of war. It begins in the easy-going days of travel abroad when young Dayton meets Elizabeth Brown and becomes informally engaged; and goes on to the artist life in Paris when he meets Elise, a joyous young Parisian girl of the lower class. Suddenly called home and prevented by accident from communicating with Elise, he marries Elizabeth with the determination to be true to her. Chance takes him to Paris, and there three things happened: he learns of another daughter, the child of Elise; Maria, Elizabeth’s daughter, dies of typhoid; and the Germans strike. Both he and his loyal wife plunge into the war, and in the ordeals which there confront them the dross of his nature is destroyed.

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By V. SACKVILLE-WEST

Miss V. Sackville-West is already well known as a writer of distinguished verse, but this is her first essay in fiction. Her subject is the influence of heredity, and shows the effect of a strain of Spanish blood on a stolid Sussex stock, as manifested in the persons of a young woman and her cousin, whom she subsequently marries. The story has most unusual literary and dramatic values; but while it is first of all remarkable for its literary style, its beautiful descriptions and power of creative imagination, it presents against this background a steadfast realism of action and psychology. The biological parallel of the ‘waltzing mice’ that in some sense follow the fortunes of the heroine is an original and charming invention.Heritageis certainly one of the most arresting first novels published in the last ten years.

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By ERNEST GOODWIN

For the right sort of people, Life, in even these drab times, holds romance and beauty, fun and whimsical adventure. Bamfield, camping in his caravan on Ouseton Common, found himself involved in a whirlpool of surprising events. He had imagined himself quite a serious person, immovably a bachelor wedded to art. ‘Oh! Indeed!’ Fate seems to have chuckled to itself, and proceeded to deal with him in the proper manner. At the finish, Bamfield, giddy, breathless (perhaps in his secret soul a trifle alarmed), discovered that he was holding Rose Nieugent by the hand—and holding her tight!

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(Daughter of the British Ambassador)

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